Tuesday, 3 September 2013

I started writing Prince of Thorns 10 years ago!

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That's my blog post really... an infographic and the observation that I started Prince of Thorns 10 years and one month ago and finished it in 2006. If I had thought anyone would be interested I could have taken two weeks and finished it in 2005... In any event, 98% of the words you read in Prince of Thorns were in the version finished in 2006... then I sat on it for just over 3 years.

9 comments:

Very poignant, Mark. Thanks for sharing that. I think having followers - or believing you have followers - might have made the difference to you in those 3 years; but your mileage may vary. If I believe my actions can impact someone else I tend to have greater impetus. I am what they used to call "company man" before society of the spectacle took real hold with technology so I may be talking square peg in round hole again. Awkward me on social media. I am glad you published!

"An overnight 10 year success". This is not as uncommon a story as people might think. You have been building Jorg a long time. (Most people would have written lots of trunk novels in those ten years.)